After almost an entire week of not being able to backup to Crashplan because of “archive maintenance” on their part, I was informed today that instead of merely maintaining my backup archive, Crashplan LOST THE ENTIRE THING. That’s right, Crashplan lost all of my data, unrecoverably. It’s gone – my entire online backup archive of all of my data – my life’s work – 2.4 tb of everything – completely gone. And Crashplan doesn’t seem to have any remorse.

Wow...that's pretty sad! I recently switched to Crashplan from IDRIVE because IDRIVE slowed my laptop a bit. I also do daily backups to an external drive but that is besides the point. Cloud backup services need to take their responsibilities seriously and, in this case, Crashplan did not.